Ran 'do-release-upgrade' and now TigerVNC won't run....

[Bo Berglund]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:36:54 +0100, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

>So I have started over by completely removing the TigerVNC server and the
>associated configuration files and then installing it again.
>
>I have followed a tutorial about installing TigerVNC on Ubuntu 22.04/20.04 which
>you can find here:
>
>https://bytexd.com/how-to-install-configure-vnc-server-on-ubuntu/
>
>Now the server works but I have noted:
>
>1) The /etc/vnc.conf file is NOT used! 
>This is where I had configurations..
>
>2) The vncserver needs to be told on the command line NOT to close the LAN
>connection....
>
>3) The service file needs to set all configuration items.
>
>4) A simpler ~/.vnc/xsession file is used, I thing there is somethiong in my old
>such file that caused the errors...
>
>Now done anyway....
>

Not quite, I just discovered a growing log ~/.vnc/polaris-ubuntu:5901.log

The tail of that log, which is now at 9.5 Mbytes (!!!!!) reads:

$ tail -n 30 .vnc/polaris-ubuntu:5901.log
ALSA lib confmisc.c:422:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned
error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1334:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned
error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5701:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or
directory
ALSA lib control.c:1528:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default
ALSA lib confmisc.c:855:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_inum returned
error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:422:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned
error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1334:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned
error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5701:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or
directory
ALSA lib control.c:1528:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default


What the h-ck is going on here?
And why is there no timestamp in the log so one can se when something was
logged?

While writing this the log has expanded by 500 kbytes!


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden